She said analysis of the device at East Midlands found it was "viable" and "could have succeeded in bringing down the aircraft".
And one of the things that really cost us getting to the battle on time was we have to break down the aircraft.
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The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.
Whether it was a genuine capture or a sting operation, the government has threatened to shoot down any aircraft attempting the same mission.
Countries with significant air power or the ability to shoot down aircraft are scattered across the region, including China, Russia and North Korea as well as key U.S. allies such as Japan and Australia.
Parachute packers were the people who toiled down in the bowels of the aircraft carrier, rarely seeing the light of day during working hours, it was hot, humid, hard work.
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People in the Champs-Elysees watched as the French Tricolour streamed from the fuselage of the aircraft and floated down on to the Arc de Triomphe.
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What goes for an airport or a bay can be scaled up to an ocean, or the air above it, and down to the flow off an aircraft's wingtip, or a ship's hull.
The man, who has not been named, died when the single engine, single wing aircraft came down at the Army Aviation Centre in Middle Wallop.
After graduating from Oxford he joined the RAF and served in Bomber Command eventually being shot down over the Netherlands while his aircraft was on a mine laying operation.
"When I came down the steps of that aircraft, I didn't see anything, " she says.
The pilot scrapped the plan to fast-rope and focussed on getting the aircraft down.
Nato has not yet said what brought the aircraft down, but the Serbs say they shot it down.
Sheikh Mohammed recently likened his realm's troubles to the headwinds slowing down an aircraft.
The aircraft came down just 150 yards from the landing strip at the McRae family's home.
Authorities had initially said the bodies of two passengers were found after the aircraft went down Friday night.
Wreckage was spread across 500m (1640ft) when the aircraft came down in fields at Witchford, near Ely, in Cambridgeshire, in January 2012.
All 132 passengers perished when the aircraft went down over Moscow.
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But whereas existing equipment must be left behind if the aircraft goes down and the pilot becomes separated -- now they can take the technology on the hoof.
The truces continued, even multiplied, while we were sent "down the chute" through thick anti-aircraft fire with our bombs against truck convoys and "up the hills" with our guns blazing for meaningless hilltops in a shooting gallery of paltry, minuscule efforts that ended in defeat.
Local residents had feared the base was being run down after it failed to win the new Joint Combat Aircraft in 2005.
Sharp objects can no longer bring down aircraft, Hawley said, and the search for knives interferes with the search for objects that can threaten aircraft, he said.
During the Cuban missile crisis, a bear snuffling around the perimeter fence of a Minnesota airbase led to aircraft carrying primed nuclear weapons rolling down the runways ready for take off in neighbouring Wisconsin.
Al Qaeda didn't have the capability to shoot down aircraft, officials said.
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Analysing the sea in this way might prove useful, too, in rescuing people whose boats have broken down or in locating the wreckage of aircraft that have crashed in mid-ocean.
The company responsible for the missing helicopter, Khorasan, said the aircraft was forced down in bad weather on Sunday evening while flying to Kabul from Khost, which is to the south-east of the capital.
Eighteen seconds later, you have slowed that aircraft to hover speed and can sit down in the landing zone to quickly on- or off-load the maximum things on the aircraft.
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"There is only one pilot on the aircraft and if he is temporarily disorientatde he could lose sight of where we're going and the worst case scenario would be the aircraft would have come down, " he added.
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